Sprouts Farmers Market opens in West El Paso next week

The new location for Sprouts Farmers Market is scheduled to open next Wednesday adjacent to the K-Mart store along Sunland Park Drive. (Rudy Gutierrez / El Paso Times)

Sprouts Farmers Market is scheduled to open its new El Paso natural-foods supermarket Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 6 a.m., the Phoenix company reported. The new store is located at 655 Sunland Park Drive in the Sunland Towne Centre on the West Side.

The company plans to give the first 200 shoppers in line Wednesday a 20 percent discount on their store purchases that day, the company announced.

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